by Maine, Miley
“Yeah, a small town like this one has that way of making you ok with being idle, if that makes sense. It’s like you become entrapped in the place so much so that you are actually a part of it. If you did do something crazy and venture outside the city limits, you’d find yourself lost and utterly alone in this crazy assed world.”
“You have a very cheery disposition,” I said. “I can dig that.”
“You work at the used bookstore, don’t you? That’s where I’ve seen you. Sorry if I was staring, but you got one of those faces. I just knew I’d seen you somewhere before.”
“Ah, yeah. I guess I do. You come in there much?”
“Not too often anymore,” she said. “I ran out of space for my books. I don’t like to donate them back either; I like to collect them and read them again from time to time. I can find something new and interesting each time I delve into one, you know?”
I wasn’t sure why I was fascinated by this woman’s introspection and her diatribe on every single thing under the sun, but she was a talker, and I was happy to just let her ramble on and on. I was tired; it had been a long day at the bookstore. There was a crazy sale, and everyone was asking a million questions. On top of that Rachel was sick (I was starting to suspect she had problem with pills), and I was left all alone to fend off the howling wolves as they descended upon the store in droves.
“That’s interesting,” I said. “What do you do?”
“Oh, I’m a student.”
“I don’t think there are any colleges close by. You must be doing online.”
“Yeah, I’m a distance learner. I am halfway through my communications associate degree. I have to drive into Tucson about once every three weeks for a seminar, but otherwise it is all online.”
“Ah, ok.”
I chatted with Skylar for about half an hour. We had a lot in common as far as music, movies, and even our thoughts on fashion. She was fun and easy to talk to. It was nice to make a new friend besides just Rachel. I’d hung out with Rachel a few times, but she never had anything really interesting to talk about. It was like she had no interests whatsoever. Her life must have been so boring. I felt a bit sorry for her.
But Skylar was different. This was by far the most stimulating conversation I’d had with anyone for the past few months. I wanted my old life back so badly. I had not been found by Saul so far, so that was a good thing. I was safe for now. And safety was more important right now than anything.
Still, I felt stupid for waiting around. Was I just going to keep going this way? What was I waiting for? I felt like I was just waiting to be found, waiting to be taken away back to being a prisoner. Or maybe I would end up dead.
What if I just took the fight to him? What if I reached out to Tony to see if maybe he could help me? I knew he could, but I was afraid he might get himself too deeply involved. I couldn’t stand having him in danger. What if something happened to him? I’d never forgive myself. But I needed him. I thought of him always and I cursed myself for not telling him the truth about things. I was trying to protect him, but what if was just putting myself in danger and destroying my heart in the process?
Had he moved on already? Was he over me?
I tried not to dwell too much on this, but it constantly tugged at my heart strings.
I finished my dinner and my conversation with Skylar. We exchanged contact information and agreed to hang out sometime soon.
I went home feeling better about things. At least I’d made a friend and I didn’t feel as alone anymore. That was important to my morale at least.
I was just heading up to my apartment which was around the side of my landlord’s house. It was small, but it worked for now. I started up the steps when I heard a voice calling me.
I stopped instantly. The fear leapt into my throat. Who was there? I’d been found. My first instinct was to run and flee. But I couldn’t run upstairs. I’d be trapped. And I didn’t have time to turn and run. They were behind me. I’d be caught for sure. My brain felt like it was short-circuiting with the thoughts bouncing around inside of me.
“Julie.”
The voice came again. This time it was softer and more familiar. In the darkness, I could see a figure approaching slowly. As the person came into the light, I began to see the familiar outline of a guy. And then there he was standing before me as clear as could be.
“Tony!” I exclaimed.
He was there. He’d come for me. Before rational thought consumed me, I leapt off the step straight into his arms. He hugged me tightly to his body. It was him. Yes! It was really him. But how? How did he get here? I decided I didn’t really care. I was so happy to see him. He was really there for me. I couldn’t believe it. It had to be a dream. It had to be.
But no. He was real. His strong arms were holding me tightly and pressing his warmth close to me. His broad chest against mine, his face nuzzled into my neck, his mouth kissing my skin and tasting me. Oh, I needed him so badly. Three long months of missing him had been pent up so badly. It was ready to be released now. I found myself just melting into him.
“Baby,” Tony said. “Oh, it’s really you.”
He stared into my eyes and rubbed my face with his large, muscular hands. His touch felt orgasmic over my entire body. He stared into my eyes disbelieving, shaking his head and then he pressed his sweet lips to mine and took me into him.
I closed my eyes and let him melt with me. The kiss was full of love and passion. It had been too long. All that mattered in that moment was that we were there together. He’d come for me. I wasn’t sure how he’d found me, and I didn’t really care at the moment. His touch was all I needed.
His mouth was warm and soft, but powerful. His jaws massaged my mouth with his lips, and he kissed me moving from the top to the bottom, then to my chin for a quick peck, my cheek for a taste and then back to my lips for a deep passionate kiss. His tongue invaded my mouth and I let him wiggle it against mine, awakening me finally after this long slumber.
“How?” I asked when the kiss had ended. “How did you find me?”
“It wasn’t easy, but I was able to have one of our tech guys trace your IP address when you logged into your email. We had to wait until you logged onto it.”
I shook my head. “I knew it was a bad idea, but I had to see if anyone I loved was trying to contact me that way. I went to the library and used their computer hoping that would mask it.”
“My tech guys are the best,” he said.
“Well, I’m glad you found me. Come inside.”
I led him into my apartment. He didn’t pay any attention to how I was living. The size of my little place seemed lost on him. He was far too focused on me. And that was beautiful to me, the way he could only see me. I saw the love in his eyes. And I felt the same for him. Why had I ever denied it? I was afraid. I was just afraid, and now I saw I had no reason to be. I was with the only man who could protect me in this world and I never wanted to leave his side.
I sat him down on the couch and he told me how he knew everything about Saul. He’d still been unable to locate him. The guy was doing everything he could to stay under the radar. He’d even tried faking his death, but the cops had discovered he wasn’t really dead.
“I’m so scared,” I said. “I just had to run. I’m so sorry I did that to you. I knew it would hurt you, but I was too scared to say anything.” I wiped the tears from my eyes.
Tony was understanding. He wrapped his arm around my shoulder and looked into my face. “You should have told me. I could have helped.”
“I didn’t want you getting mixed up in this. I hate that you are now. But I’m glad you found me. We can’t go to the police. Saul has too many of them on his payroll.”
“There are a few I trust,” Tony said. “They are old friends of mine, but I’m starting to question whether even trusting them is a good idea. Saul has these cops on a tight leash and pays them well. That sort of money is hard to pass up. It becomes addictive.”
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“Now, we have to figure out what we are going to do about Saul…”
I’d never seen Tony’s eyes look more serious.
13
Tony
I couldn’t believe I’d found her.
She looked the same, yet somehow older and more mature. Or was it that she looked a bit broken down? That might be it. She looked so tired and world weary. She was so strong, but I knew that at some point she would find herself breaking and being alone what else would she do? I’d gotten to her just in the nick of time. I was so glad to find her safe and sound.
It had been months of exhaustive searching with roads leading to nowhere. She knew how to disappear and not be found. I was impressed with this ability. But I wanted her to know how safe she was now. She was going to be ok.
But the only way we could ensure this was to do something about Saul.
“What do you mean? What can we do to the guy? He is almost untouchable.”
I looked up at her and tried to keep my voice calm and steady. She was probably not going to want to hear this, but I had a plan I knew would work well. She just had to settle into it and be ok with it.
“I’ve got something planned,” I said. “This is no way for you to live. I found you and Saul will too eventually. But I have a mansion in Alaska that is safe. You can stay there and recuperate. You can work remotely if you want to work or you can just relax and get your head back on straight. I can only imagine how much the past few months have taken out of you.”
She sighed. “Yeah, they’ve been rough. The hardest part has been being away from you.”
I felt my heart flutter a bit. She had that warm, sweet look in her eyes that I’d missed so much. God, I loved this woman so much.
“I’m so sorry I didn’t say it back that night, but I do love you. I love you so much. I never realized it fully until I was gone, but it’s been torture being without you.”
She was sobbing now. I reached up and dried a sweet tear from her eyes. Then I leaned in and kissed her sweetly on the mouth. “It’s ok, baby. I love you. I will always love you no matter what. I’ve thought of nothing else but finding you. And I’m glad I did. Now we can begin the healing and we can begin taking care of this problem.”
“Ok. What are we going to do?”
“Well, we will hide you out there at the mansion for a while and then we can focus all of our efforts on tracking Saul. I’ve got several people that I trust working on this as we speak, including some cops from up there. They are a bit out of Saul’s reach as far as greasing their palms. Besides if he can grease their palms, I can pay them far more.”
I could tell she was feeling better already. She seemed so much less tense now than when we’d first sat down on the couch. I rubbed her back gently as I spoke to her and she leaned into it, moaning ever so often very softly. My poor angel was exhausted. She had been so scared, so worried, and so stressed out for several months. And now that was gone. I was here. I would take care of everything. I knew she hated being taken care of, but it was not beneath anyone to ask for some help sometimes. I saw she was beginning to learn that.
“Ok, what happens after that?” Julie asked.
“Well, if Saul finds you somehow, then we will spring the trap on him. I’m even toying with the idea of leading him to you just so we can trap him. Then he will be dealt with. But that is a bit dangerous and your safety is my number one concern. So that is the last resort. Right now, we want to keep you safe and we want to find him. That’s where we will start. So, let’s get you packed up and we can get out of here. I have my jet waiting at the Tucson airport. We can send for the bulk of your stuff later. Tonight, you can rest on the plane and then in the new comfortable bed in the mansion. How does that sound?”
She swallowed hard and put her head on my shoulder. “It sounds wonderful. I can’t thank you more.”
“You don’t need to thank me,” I replied.
I pulled her closer to me and kissed her softly again. I saw something else stirring in her just then. Her kiss took a more serious tone to it and she began to kiss me back very passionately. Her mouth was aggressively pushing against mine, trying to consume my essence into her. I kissed her hard back and let my tongue do its work with hers, the two dancing and writhing back and forth to some inaudible soundtrack, moving to the beat of the lust between us.
I sucked on her tongue just then. I loved the way her soft, yet strong appendage wiggled against the movement, the sweet breath coming behind it and mixing with my own. My lips slid against hers, diving under her upper lip and then moving down to the bottom lip. She kissed me so softly, so sweetly, yet forceful.
I was hard as could be right then. My cock was aching to free itself from the constraints of my pants. I was so ready for her to touch me. I wanted to be inside of her so badly. The lust I had for her was painful. The need had to be met soon.
I leaned her down on the couch and continued to kiss her passionately, allowing her to pull me into her more and more. My hands reached under her skirt and pulled her panties down. Soon they were at the base of her ankles and then she kicked them off quickly. I reached up and fingered her clit just then. It was so wet, tight, inviting, as if it had been waiting for me all this time. And I’d been waiting for her.
I shoved my index and middle finger deeply inside of her just then. She gasped and sucked in, drawing my tongue deeper down her throat. I wanted to follow it as far as I could.
Surprisingly, her fingers began to fumble with my belt. She unbuckled my belt and then focused on the zipper and the snaps. Then I was suddenly free. My cock was in her hand now and she was squeezing me tight and then tenderly, rubbing me back and forth between the two sensations.
Wasting no time, she positioned my cock against her tightness and lifted her legs up enough so that I could ease into her. Sliding between her wet, outer lips was like sliding into the most perfectly warm pool. I was in utter Heaven within seconds. I closed my eyes as I made love to the love of my life. I vowed that I would never lose her again. She had finally admitted that she loved me just as much as I loved her, but I wasn’t sure if such a thing was possible.
Julie crossed her ankles behind my waist as she held on. I was pumping her deeply and smoothly now, pressing my cock hard inside of her sweetness. She was so tight, so warm, and wet for me. Her soft moans turned me on even more with each passing second. I wasn’t sure how I could keep from exploding inside of her soon with the lust I’d been building for her for the past few months. I needed this release more than anything. It was vital for my own life and sanity.
She kissed me hard right then and began to buck her hips wildly against me, forcing my cock to move in and out of her faster and faster. I picked up the pace and continued to fuck that sweet, wonderful wetness until I felt myself on the verge of climax.
I came hard right then plunging myself deep inside of Julie. I held it hard inside of her, trying to empty my seed as far within her inner walls as I possibly could. Her body responded by tightening and squeezing my cock as if trying to wring every last drop from my body. Good. I wanted to give it to her. I wanted her to know that she had everything I had to offer at her disposal. I would give every single bit of myself to her to make her happy.
A moment later I felt Julie’s climax hitting hard as well. The moment I came inside of her I could see the explosiveness in her eyes building the intensity and then her body followed suit. Every muscle was tight and tense. Her body held onto mine as I finished emptying myself into her and she grabbed me with her inner lust and pulled me in as far as possible.
At last, we rested, the two of us holding onto each other with the love that we’d built, that had been building even in our absence from one another. It was peaceful and emotional. Julie was crying with relief as she hugged me. Her arms wrapped around my neck and she kissed me, softly, slowly, and very passionately.
This was the way our lives were supposed to be.
14
Julie
; Tony’s Alaskan mansion was beautiful. I’d never seen anything like it. It was located about ten miles outside of Anchorage, so we were still close to the city if we needed to be. But we were also in the wild, wonderful Alaskan wilderness. The mansion was even bigger than the one he had back in Los Angeles, but the real mind blower was how much land was connected to this property. There was a huge field stretching from each side of the house and beyond that were trees and wilderness as far away as the eye could see. It was breathtaking.
I never knew that Tony was such an avid outdoorsman. I found this part of him very interesting and even a bit sexy. He was not just a dominant businessman, but he seemed to be that way in every aspect of his life, and I was starting to wonder if there was anything this man could not do. It was a trip to learn all these new and wonderful things about him. Each little thing just made me love him a little bit more.
It had felt so good to be out in the open about my feelings for him, to tell him how much he meant to me and how I’d missed him. When I saw him standing outside of that apartment in Arizona my heart had almost stopped. He had actually come for me. He always would. I knew then that he would never let any harm come to me and he was more than capable of keeping both of us safe. It had been stupid of me to run that way.
But fear will make you do crazy things.
I’d been in the mansion for about two weeks when Tony woke me up early one morning. Now, usually he woke me up with the proposition of a hot shower together followed by a hot breakfast. But this morning, I saw he was already dressed, and he had a fairly serious look on his face. He was not playing around. Something was going on.
I wondered what… I was very intrigued.
“Get dressed. We need to go.”
“What?” I asked. “Where?”
“You’ll see,” he said. He pointed to the end of the bed where he’d laid out the clothes, he wanted me to wear. “Get dressed, babe.”
